CERTIFICATION

Royde & Tucker's products are tested by UKAS approved test houses such as Warrington Fire Research and APT to ensure our products meet the latest EN and BS product performance and fire test standards.

Royde & Tucker is also ISO9001 approved (please see certificate - right).

Certifire

This is a scheme for the independent third party certification of passive fire protection products. It is one of the first steps that will assist a manufacturer to get CE marking which will harmonise European product and fire test standards. Approval of door hardware is based on stringent quality and technical requirements where the manufacturer operates a certified ISO 9000 quality management system.

Having established the performance requirements, a full appraisal of the product is undertaken to determine the field of application. This information is contained in the certificate and specified on which types of door it is approved for use, together with any limitations. Manufacturers are required to label or identify the product with the certificate number and to supply fixing instructions to ensure that it is used in the correct way.

Approved Document B to the Building Regulations (England and Wales) recognises the importance of independent product conformity certification. It states: "Third party conformity certification schemes not only provide a means of identifying materials and designs of systems, products or structures which have demonstrated that they have the requisite performance in fire, but additionally provide confidence that the systems, materials, products or structures actually supplied are provided to the same specification or design as that tested/assessed."

Full details of Certifire certificates are contained in a register, which is regularly updated and freely available to architects, specifiers and regulatory enforcement authorities. HI-LOAD hinges were the first to have Certifire approval and one of the very few ranges to have that approval. HI-LOAD hinges have exceeded 30 and 60 minutes testing of fire-rated timber doors and doorsets without integrity failure.

Below are links to our Certifire Certificates, please paste these into your web browser.

Certificate CF 209 Hi Load Hinges - Traditional Series

http://www.wfrc.co.uk/downloads/CF209_Royde%20%20Tucker.pdf

Certificate CF 215 Hi Load Hinges - Concealed Bearing Series

http://www.wfrc.co.uk/downloads/CF215_Royde%20%20Tucker.pdf

Certificate CF230 K9 Stainless Steel

http://www.wfrc.co.uk/downloads/CF230_Royde%20&%20Tucker.pdf